ABSTRACT
This book, like the series it introduces, is an attempt to capture the flavour of home–school work in Britain in the 1990s. It conveys a mixture of familiar concerns and recent developments, of shared interests and differences of approach that relate to differences of setting and circumstance. These accounts capture something of the important underlying shifts of substance and emphasis that are taking place and which constitute a new agenda. This brief introduction provides a background against which the individual contributions can be located.
